Sentence examples for was invalid for from inspiring English sources

The court ruled by a divided 8-to-1 majority in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, No. 03-6696, thet the two-year detention of a Unitedetentioncitizen, Yaser Esam Hamdi, was invalid, fof any of several reasons.

"Someone could say that at least part of the regulation was invalid, for breach of the charter, and it is possible to strike things down for breaching the charter," he said.

Greenpeace challenged the patent, arguing that it amounted to commercialization of human embryos, and the German Federal Patent Court agreed, saying the patent was invalid for applications using human cells since the starting material would be hES cells.

After conducting a multi-state field test on the NWRC exam, a national testing expert cautioned that the test was invalid for young adults and non-white populations, the very same populations to whom the test is now administered.

Maternal country of birth was missing for 1,344 births (1.3%), and the postal code was invalid for 33 births.

At the last moment, the sisters found a way to stop the sale; since the house had been willed to all seven children, it had been invalid for Lisa alone to refinance it.

His successful appeal means not only that he will be allowed to use the Internet after his release from prison, but that sentences prohibiting Internet use were invalid for other offenders, too.

"The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.

Kennedy wrote: The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.

"The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity," Justice Kennedy wrote.

The ruling, which involved the billionaire Philip F. Anschutz but applies to scores of executives, says that a complex strategy routinely used to turn stock options into cash and defer the capital gains taxes is invalid for deferral.